#door

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. ↗

— John Updike

#author #because #been #choices #door

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#buy #door #friday #friday night #go

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#door #hate #her #i #monica

Everyone says I'm like the girl next door... Y'all must have really weird neighbors! ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#everyone #girl #girl next door #i #like

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door. ↗

— Julian Clary

#eccentrics #english #just #like #living

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#any #arguing #been #difficulties #doors

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. ↗

— Robert Collier

#door #every #gift #gods #human

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting. ↗

— Perry Como

#day #doors #everything #fleeting #glass

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues. ↗

— Mackenzie Crook

#environmental issues #i #issues #like #natural

So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#daughter #does #door #friend #friendly